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“Mike Trout When I’m Battin’ Boy”: Unpacking Baseball’s Translation Through Rap Lyrics

Overview of attention for article published in Sociology of Sport Journal, September 2020
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Title
“Mike Trout When I’m Battin’ Boy”: Unpacking Baseball’s Translation Through Rap Lyrics
Published in
Sociology of Sport Journal, September 2020
DOI 10.1123/ssj.2019-0038
Authors

Travis R. Bell, Victor D. Kidd

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 6 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 2 33%
Student > Bachelor 2 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 17%
Unknown 1 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 3 50%
Arts and Humanities 1 17%
Social Sciences 1 17%
Unknown 1 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 February 2021.
All research outputs
#13,438,659
of 23,202,641 outputs
Outputs from Sociology of Sport Journal
#180
of 281 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#194,511
of 399,371 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociology of Sport Journal
#3
of 9 outputs
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